I’m thinking about using free ESXi for a home lab environment, but curious what the limitations are. I’ve found most of them via google, and since I don’t plan to do backups it’s fine.

What’s ambiguous to me is if powercli is supported.

I don’t need to learn about virtualization as a platform at home so I just need something that works. I was previously responsible for a vSphere environment with over 2500 VMs on over 50 ESX hosts so I know vSphere well.

I need a place to host a bunch of linux VMs.

I’ve never touched proxmox but don’t really have interest in that unless someone can make a case for it. I almost think I’d be better off throwing windows 10 on the machine and using hypver-v if free esxi is going to be too useless

thoughts?